 | 1864 - 656 pàgines
...either. One of the most venerable of modern puns is Sir Henry Wotton's slur upon an ambassador as " an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." So pleased with it was the good knight himself, as to try to give it European currency by translating... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1865 - 404 pàgines
...mentiendum Reipubcausa." Which Sir Henry Wotton could have been content should have been thus Englished : " An Ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." But the word for lie — being the hinge upon which the conceit was to turn — was not so expressed... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1865 - 922 pàgines
...says that Sir Henry "could have been content that his Latin could have been thus Englished : — " An ambassador is an honest man sent to LIE abroad for the good of his country." But the word lie (being the hinge upon which the conceit was to turn) wus not •o expressed in Latin... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1867 - 484 pàgines
...his own Court. His conduct reminds us of Sir Henry Wotton's definition of an ambassador — that he is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. A pun upon the term, foyerAmbassador. so by my Lord Chancellor and some others, that get money themselves,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 484 pàgines
...Longaville. t> To Jit— to reside. We have the sense in Wotton's punning <it fruition of an ambassador — "an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." ' The folio reads brcitc. G 2 Stands in attainder of eternal shame : Suggestions* are to others, as... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 622 pàgines
...reside. Sir H. Wotton gives the following punning definition of the duties of an ambassador. — " An honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." LONG OP YOU. Act II., Sc. 1. " 'T is long of you that spur me with such questions." Through you —... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 pàgines
...embassies, but he lost that monarch's conf1dence by writing in a friend's album, as a definition, " An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country," which was quoted eight years after by an adversary of the king, as one of the principles on which he... | |
 | 1870 - 858 pàgines
...is due as much in one respect as the other. He it was who gave the definition of an ambassador as " an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." And when his advice was onco asked in a matter of diplomatic tactics, he said, " Ever speak the truth... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1908 - 668 pàgines
...many examples. — [There is here doubtless a play upon the word, as in Sir Henry Wotton's definition: 'An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.' — ED.] 126. I must] STEEVENS: Alluding to the proverb: 'Patience perforce is medicine... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pàgines
...Architecture. Hanging was the worst use man could be put t0. The Disparity between Buchingham ancl Essex. An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.2 1 "sun" in Reliquia Wottoniana, Eds. 165I, 1672, 1685. 2 In a letter to Velserus, 1612,... | |
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An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. 
